Blog posts

Designing and Building a URL Shortener on AWS

If you have been on the internet long enough, you must have come across short URL links that look like this, https://ewal.short/abcd12, which lead you to a website with a longer URL. A short URL is useful when typing a message...

How I Boost My Productivity Using Large Language Models (LLMs)

There is a lot of fear-mongering regarding Artifical Intellingence (AI), many sources talk about how it would take away jobs. Generative AI particularly, has enjoyed a lot of attention in the past few months. Large Language Models (LLMs) are...

The Importance of Ownership in Engineering

One day I was working with a client to investigate a recurring issue in their environment. There were multiple people on this call trying to understand how to handle a use-case in a graceful manner, instead of erroring out abruptly...